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TXRanger
 Post subject: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
PostPosted: June 11th, 2009, 1:02 
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I have a Western Digital WD7500AAKS drive that has failed. The drive spins up fine and initializes, and MHDD can see the drive properly, and gets proper ID and EID information. When testing the drive, all sectors return ABRT. I have verified the ATA password is not set.

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BlackST
 Post subject: Re: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
PostPosted: June 11th, 2009, 1:08 
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Yes. SA.
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 Post subject: Re: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
PostPosted: June 11th, 2009, 2:39 
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Common problem on these drives; till now no good solution found yet.
Still researching it.

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jono-ats
 Post subject: Re: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
PostPosted: June 11th, 2009, 9:27 
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Swap the PCB.

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dobrevjetser
 Post subject: Re: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
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Thats a possibility, yes.

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 Post subject: Re: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
PostPosted: June 11th, 2009, 9:58 
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We've been getting a lot of Western Digital drives like this lately. Even though they are recoverable, they can be really tough and time consuming. I'm thinking that we're going to have to quote higher for these drives, knowing that they will require a lot elbow grease.

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Doomer
 Post subject: Re: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
PostPosted: June 11th, 2009, 10:59 
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BlackST wrote:
Yes. SA.

Most likely not

TXRanger, this is tough case if you wouldn't be able to fix it by yourself - you can send it to us

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BlackST
 Post subject: Re: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
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@Doomer... from the symptom I suspected the SA, had some similar case, same symptom, the problem was SA related and not so easy to fix but anyway managed to fix and get 100% data (and still wondering why it happened...) , someone else suggested PCB (maybe ROM related then or something similar ?) , other have other ideas... well, without analyzing the drive it would be impossible to tell. It was my 2 cents, anyway.
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 Post subject: Re: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
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Could very well be the PCB, had quite a few where a new PCB and subsequent ROM rebuild from the SA has worked.

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Doomer
 Post subject: Re: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
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Most of the WD Royal we see have contact corrosion and a MPU problem that is resolved by swapping the PCB. Symptoms look like bad SA, but it's not . . .

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 Post subject: Re: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
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You can check translate module good or bad?

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 Post subject: Re: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
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hddlab wrote:
You can check translate module good or bad?

I bet he cannot read SA

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 Post subject: Re: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
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Doomer wrote:
hddlab wrote:
You can check translate module good or bad?

I bet he cannot read SA

Oh boy!
So, he can not deal with that HDD.

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 Post subject: Re: WD7500AAKS - ABRT errors on all sectors
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If you can read SA and it looks fine but no access to user data/any sectors - heads issue, if cannot then a lot of issues.
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Doomer
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PostPosted: June 13th, 2009, 21:31 
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Secrets revealed :)

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